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Category Archives: My CO2 Footprint
Overwhelmed by Climate News?
Capitalism may be our Salvation. Didn’t see that one coming did you? My dream is that there will be home energy kits available at Home Depot, Walmart, Lowes, or other box store that anyone can buy at a reasonable price … Continue reading
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Perfect Time for Plant-Based Meals
I was going to say, great time to go vegan, but I know change takes time — a lot of time. Take my in-home campaign to stop using plastic wrap. How long could that take? FIVE years! It started in … Continue reading
Posted in At Home, Climate, Food, My CO2 Footprint, Water
Tagged covid, covid-19, healthy diet, healthy planet, plant based, sequestration, stay home order, vegan
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Why an Electric Car is the Perfect Second Car
If you’ve been following my blog, you know I’ve been looking for ways to reduce my carbon footprint for the past few years. I had hoped to be in the process of converting our local electricity from fossil-fuel based to … Continue reading
Posted in At Home, Energy, Fuel, My CO2 Footprint, Saving Money, Shopping
Tagged bainbridge, Bainbridge Senior Center, benefits of electric cars, CAB, car, cars, Climate Action Bainbridge, Demi Allen, electric, electric car, electric vehicle, electric vehicles, Erika Shriner, EV, Leaf, Multi-Model Advisory Committee, Nissan, Nissan Leaf, second car
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Friends, Don’t Let Friends Buy Earth Worms
I have a confession to make. I may have blacked out, or forgotten that I grew up in farm country, been spending too much time indoors instead of outside, but I think I finally bought into to the messaging that … Continue reading
Posted in At Home, Food, My CO2 Footprint
Tagged compost, compost bins, composting, consumerism, dirt, earth, earth worms, red wigglers, soil, worm, worms
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From the Ashes – Hope
If you haven’t seen From the Ashes, a National Geographic documentary, it is well worth renting. Along with Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth sequel, which our local nonprofit environmental groups (EcoAdapt, Climate Action Bainbridge, Citizens’ Climate Lobby, Island Power and Sustainable … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Energy, My CO2 Footprint
Tagged Al Gore, C02, carbon dioxide, Citizen's Climate Lobby, Climate Action Bainbridge, coal, EcoAdapt, fossil fuels, From the Ashes, ghg, green house gas, Inconvenient Truth, Island Power, National Geographic, natural gas, sustainable bainbridge
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Island Power Effort Tabled for Now
From Bainbridge Island City Manager Doug Schultz’s Report June 16th, “After over two years of studying the feasibility of forming a municipal electrical utility, the City Council voted during their meeting on June 13 to cease further consideration of forming … Continue reading
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What if Earth = Garden of Eden?
No matter what your religion of choice, most people have heard the story of Adam and Eve being banished from the Garden of Eden. What if all of earth is really a Garden of Eden? I was thinking about how … Continue reading
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Tagged albatross, Before the Flood, birds, booby, Bosch, Chris Jordan, curlew, eden, Hieronymus Bosch, laysan, Leo dicaprio, midway, plastic, plover, rain gardens, seattle, terns, The Garden of Earthly Delights, trash, urban death project
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PSE Island
Welcome to Bainbridge Puget Sound Energy (PSE) Island. Its like Safeco Field or any other company-paid entity. You might not have noticed, because Madge, “you’re soaking in it.” It’s all around us like the Matrix. Oh, speaking of all around … Continue reading
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Tagged bainbridge, bainbridge island, Bainbridge Review, electric utility, power, PSE, public power, Puget Sound Energy, Thurston County, utility
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Climate Change is Calling…Anyone Picking up?
The City of Bainbridge Island Council’s discussions about public power and climate change represent a microcosm of what is being played out around the world. We’re like a Petri dish. A community experiment. Although we’re not your average participants as … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Ideas, My CO2 Footprint
Tagged bainbridge island, city council, climate, climate change, coal-generated electricity, council, electric utility, emissions, EPA, ghg, global warming, government, green house gas, local government, public power, public utility, push polling, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
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The Fox is in the Hen House …
… and, being offered tea. Fox: [in a velvety baritone voice] “I’m just here to help you keep the eggs warm. You know if the eggs aren’t warm they might DIE. Hens: [clucking to each other] “You know that nice … Continue reading
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Tagged activist tips, bainbridge, bainbridge island, ballot, ballot measure, carbon-neutral energy, city of bainbridge, city utility, climate, climate change, coal, coal-generated electricity, COBI, feedback loops, greener energy, initiative, Island Power, islanders, local control, nov ballot, November ballot, public power, Puget Sound Energy, reliability, tips, utilities, utility
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